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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives.

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10 Things to Know When Moving To A More ?Capable Software Platform

VisionLink

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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The unbearable lightness of being asset-light

TechCrunch

Marketplace CEOs can reframe their thinking about marketplace structure in a way that increases the availability of popular products and enhances the customer experience while minimizing capital outlay.

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Here’s Y Combinator’s answer to cultivated meat’s scaling problem

TechCrunch

The positive impact alternative meat products — like plant-based meat or cultivated meat — can have on the environment is striking. Except for the fact that alternative meat has a big scaling problem. Except for the fact that alternative meat has a big scaling problem. Image Credits: Micro Meat.

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Fintech Vint hopes to turn wine and spirits into a mainstream asset class

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Vint thinks everyone should, and is hoping to facilitate this. There is no doubt that alternative investments are on the rise, with financial advisors communicating that the age-old 60/40 portfolio — 60% in equities, 40% in bonds — is no longer good enough. “For us, this is a long-term game.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there.